skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're an open source security foundation. Their entire purpose is to fight those threats. One way to help flight them is to bring awareness to them.
I think it follows from basic corporate economics: growing businesses sell shares to raise capital to spend on growing the business. Over-capitalised businesses buy back shares to soak up excess cash and prop up the share price.

Apple used to be the former, now is the latter. You can argue that this is because it has succeeded beyond all comparisons and so it has more cash than it would ever need to keep growing the business (and I can see that argument has merit). But that doesn't contradict the point that it doesn't have enough good ideas to use its cash on. That the best use of its cash that it can think of is to shrink the business instead of growing it. That might be (as you say) a sound decision based on the economics of the situation and its relation to Wall St. I still think it's sad, because Apple used to be endlessly inventive. There are still problems it could solve, and markets it could address. But it doesn't want to. It wants to give that cash back to investors for them to invest elsewhere.
Tioga and Glacier Point Roads Plowing Update – Yosemite National Park
I suggest avoiding reading anything by a guy that idolizes the Khmer Rouge.
I can't recall this being the premise of any book I've read, please let us know the name of the book.
This presumes efficient spending of effort and capital across government, which, especially in the USA, a State comprised of up to nearly a hundred governments depending on where you're standing (federal, with federal agencies; state, with state agencies, county, with county agencies, city, with city agencies, school district, with school district agencies; etc), is not a good presumption.

If a local government can get together a million bucks to install some bollards at one or two dangerous intersections, that's a win. That million dollars could never have been spent on a national emission reduction effort.
Which book is it?
it’s great that you as a person of european descent can be annoyed that people in the office have to make statements about traditional ownership of the land. You know how aboriginal australians live, and yet you think that changing attitudes towards the past—and reason why certain groups are disadvantaged—doesn’t help?

it’s not a “sin” — it was genocide over land that did not belong to the Crown. it’s a good thing that immigrants also have to acknowledge australian culture and heritage, as well.

as far as the white-looking aboriginal is concerned, we’re just not gonna open that door.
I joined WhatsApp in late 2011 and left in late 2019. We always said we started with ejabberd and then replaced everything over time to get our system. I'm not sure about engagements with Erlang Solutions. I think that may have predated me, or it may have just not included me as I never did much with our chat server.

Facebook's chat system was built up with the same pattern: start with ejabberd, replace what you need to, eventually it's not the same at all (FB rewrote in C? because they couldn't hire Erlang people. WhatsApp rewrote in Erlang because Erlang is a very good fit for a chat app, and hired non-Erlang people and gave them Erlang books). I think RiotGames started with ejabberd as well.
> I think that’s totally fine. Might actually be the future direction.

Using a second board just for WiFi is definitely not totally fine for most applications. Having everything integrated into a single package important for everything from reducing BOM count to lower power consumption to development simplicity.
Hamas / Gazans are bombing aid routes right now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=kerem+shalom+crossing
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Thank you so much! Unfortunately, that is a mistake in the README that I just noticed (thank you for pointing it out!) :( As I mentioned in the first post, I didn't get to make the YouTube videos yet. But it seems the community would be indeed interested.

I will try to get to them (and in the meantime fix the README, sorry about that!)
Pretty sure the radiation will be a bigger deal.
I'm sure some security researcher is doing this, but we could easily create a visualization of "who has contributed over time" and identify transitioning of maintainers automatically just from git.

This might be worth doing and contributing to a site like bestofjs or libraries.io (I don't really use that one though!)
The main difference would be that Al Jazeera is from Qatar and not Gaza, this would be the equivalent of the EU banning Armenia because they are friendly with Russia.
Not true in Taiwan, nearly every sidewalk is overflowing with cars and scooters illegally parked. I started closing mirrors and opening windshield wipers on cars that do this to try to get the zeitgeist moving and someone threatened to kill me for it recently.
Meta doesn't have the electrical capacity to online a million 700W GPUs in 12 months. And they don't pay until they're delivered.
An excellent example of why capitalistic measurements of "value" are a death-cult method of making decisions.
I work for https://www.canvid.com, and we recently released a beta version of our product, which is similar to Screen Studio but designed for Windows. If we see enough interest, we may even release a Linux version around Q3.
Block enough scripts and there is no paywall.
Inbox Zero: https://www.43folders.com/2006/03/13/philosophy
Toddler Proofing Systemd-Boot (2023)
> If the concept of safety is foundational to these students’ ethical philosophy (as I take it to be), and, if the protests are committed to reinserting ethical principles into a cynical and corrupt politics, it is not right to divest from these same ethics at the very moment they come into conflict with other imperatives.

Speaking frankly as a political moderate in a far-left company: I don't honestly feel that "safety" in the abstract is foundational to the ethical framework of any of these movements. "Safety" for particular classes of people is, but as the saying goes, they tolerate everything except intolerance.

This sounds like a great idea, but in practice it means that even someone like me—who supports LGBT rights and has deep personal connections to the pain of gay people—feels unable to safely express my political opinions at work. I work in edtech, and I'd like to speak up in defense of the parents who don't want school curricula to include still-controversial topics. I'd like to point out that the way that they're fighting this battle will just isolate and alienate the parents of the children who they're trying to serve and that it is a morally bad thing to teach children something that their parents have explicitly said they don't want their kids to be taught. I'd like to argue that we should find a better path than intentionally deconstructing parental rights. But I can't say that because that opinion isn't welcome.

I see the same thing in these protests. There's a ton of nuance in this conflict, a ton of room for complex opinions, but creating a safe space to discuss that nuance is not the goal. The goal is to shout one opinion loudly enough that political leaders feel bound to respond, and that is antithetical to creating a true safe space.

It's never been about safety, it's been about justice, and in the minds of the protestors achieving justice requires silencing opposition.
red has pretty strong connotations in some east asian cultures.

just like how 13 is taboo, 4 and 7 can be taboo. these things do matter sometimes. respect matters.
Why do people do things? Doing things is falsely valued.

(Am partially sentient collection of coral, YMMV)
Google was a powerful place to work at 10 years ago. At Microsoft you had to convince people to give you quota for a few cores and wait for days or even weeks, if they even agree at all. At Google you could spin up a distributed batch job processing terabytes of data during your orientation codelab, literally on the first day. The contrast was very stark. Google was a very low friction environment where things just happened, and the environment was set up such that you couldn’t help but ship something. Note the past tense.
> node.js application with 100000 dependencies where an update from package version 34.2.4 to 34.2.5 breaks everything because the developers decided to change the order of parameters in one function just for fun.

aka "totally unknown environment" which you "need feedback about what works and what doesn’t"
I hope we can soon restrict human-operated cars.
japanese ui is often more dense and information rich. there are left to right and right to left cultures. tonnes of difference between cultures and understand of the world.
Brayan
Education doesn't make for a good cutoff.

> We examined the educational backgrounds of 75 terrorists behind some of the most significant recent terrorist attacks against Westerners. We found that a majority of them are college-educated, often in technical subjects like engineering.

> In the four attacks for which the most complete information about the perpetrators' educational levels is available -- the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, and the Bali bombings in 2002 -- 53 percent of the terrorists had either attended college or had received a college degree.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/the-madrassa-myth...]
I used to be against speed limit like this, but when I realize it's MPH instead of KPH and starts converting, I realize that the speed is quite extreme from what I'm used to. My motorcycle-addled road already feels quite dangerous if the riders goes to 60 kph (<40 mph) and no car reach 50 mph. Now I understand some seemingly draconian suggestion that people here says to curb this behavior. People say that Asian roads are dangerous but our average speed is much lower to compensate.

But other comment suggesting to lower it to 20mph (or 10??) is egregious. It's standard for a pendulum to swing from an extreme to an extreme I guess.
When the times leave you behind, they won't even say goodbye.
Best illustrated by the principle: "Ha! I was about to murder that person but then I didn't! Now I have saved one life and accumulated one murder credit, so I am net innocent of the murder I did yesterday."
Laudatio Turiae
It’s insanely better at config.

It’s about as bad at being a programming language or data structure serialization format, though.
Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic went bankrupt last year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_States_banking_c...
Am I alone in greatly preferring nesting in toml compared with yaml?
Curious to know how this is different from other Form-building platforms like TypeForm and neetoForm.
When I checked, I could see the custom domain and customization are only offered in the PRO plan which costs around 20$/month whereas the same in neetoForm is available in the Free Plan.
Show me software that's bright red due and doesn't use 4 and 7 due to 'culture'.
I believe the biggest are automatic Lets Encrypt certificates and the ability to discover services and route to them based on things like Kubernetes labels.
Wikipedia does pretty well with redirects and disambiguation pages. Email can be forwarded. It's more difficult if you don't have a redirect mechanism.

I don't think any of us would prefer a meaningless number to a username? But you can create a new account if you wish.

And of course we use meaningful names in source code.

One scheme I like for URL's is a meaningless id followed by an SEO string in a URL, where only the number is used and it redirects if the SEO string doesn't match.
And IIRC with a female romantic interest... that to me was the worst offense. It was an awful movie all around.
Many open source projects just don't get enough attention for the 'many eyes' benefit of OSS to occur. Many projects are neglected and poorly maintained, with little participation from the users.

I don't think OSS is particularly special though. If a state actor threw cash around they could find folks at many big companies to do their bidding. In my experience, commercial software reviews are susceptible to the same sorts of attacks as those listed in the article("please review my change ASAP because it needs to go into the next release before the deadline!").

I don't know what to do about this. You could subject approved submitters to better background checks. You can improve automated threat detection and code analysis. You can switch to safer-by-default languages that make backdoors and malicious behavior more obvious.

I wonder if the same issue exists in other engineering fields? Has anyone ever bribed an engineer to make a bridge or a water supply less robust?
This take ignores the unpaid work performed for the family and community, largely by women. When two people in a family are employed, more of their household labor (cooking, caring for the young and the old, etc) is purchased instead of provided by a family member.
If the car is putting out to much EMI to make it expensive to put that 10$ radio into the dash with the FM one the handheld will be just as useless.
So, less than IBM spent on System/360?

Quoting Dijkstra, https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-interview-with-edsger-w-dijkstr...

> I had no idea of the power of large companies. Only recently I learned that in constant dollars the development of the IBM 360 has been more expensive than the Manhattan Project.

Hee-hee! Immediately following that is:

> I was beginning to see American publications in the first issue of Communications of the ACM. I was shocked by the clumsy, immature way in which they talked about computing. There was a very heavy use of anthropomorphic terminology, the "electronic brain" or "machines that think." That is absolutely killing. The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

Anyway, to confirm the main point, "IBM spent 5 billion dollars in mid-1960s money" says https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/the-ibm-system360 while "the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the first atomic bomb, cost $2 B". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project says that was 1945 dollars, so about $3.5 billion 1965 dollars using the CPI Inflation Calculator at https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm .

Going backwards, this $30 billion on GPU training is only $3 billion in 1965 dollars, making it cheaper than the 360.
This is not an argument. To address my argument, you'd have to show that "free" meant "sovereignty". But you cannot, because that's not what it means. It means the destruction of Israel and the expulsion - at best - of its people. It does not mean "living in peaceful coexistence with". What else do you think it means? What else could it possibly mean?
You can buy a module that plugs into a Raspberry Pi and interfaces with cell networks. Many years ago someone wrote a phone program for one of these modules and called it the PiPhone.
I don't daily-drive, but dabble with it.

One issue not mentioned here is Angelfish lacks any sort of password-manager integration (as far as I could find anyways). pmOS has a Firefox mobile addon package that makes Firefox much more usable on mobile.
I'm reading that book right now for the second time. It's even better than The Martian. It's kind of in the same spirit as Delta-V or Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez. Sci-fi with some of the details worked out.
Android phones are already like that. Samsung phones will keep pestering you to enable Samsung-specific features and the UI has been rewritten by Samsung.
I didn't like it when they first changed it, but I'm used to it now. Is it better? Nope. Is it worse? A bit. Worth writing off an entire OS? Nope.
> The over riding DEI principle is that every profession, every organization, every role, must somehow have exactly the demographic breakdown of the society as a whole.

No it's not. That's a dumb strawman. "The over riding DEI principle" is not some guy that doesn't understand statistical variance, and doesn't accept any reason at all for fields to differ.

But we should have a starting position of being extremely skeptical of any big group that has a significantly different breakdown, especially if it's different in the specific ways that fit common discrimination.
I think the only feasible option, due to the shortage of SWE talent, is a combination of automation, tooling and safer languages. We need better threat analysis systems, and we need to rely more on safe-by-default languages that make program behavior more obvious.
Early History of Smalltalk
X Covid X

Also its gamer tag
As long as enterprise exists, I don't know that what you're proposing is an eventuality. Regardless, if it truly gets to the point where you can't disable it, no, I would look for options to switch. Not because of ads, but because that is a fundamental shift in the design of the product. Windows is very much designed to be poked and prodded and modified. Not being able to run your own software or heavily customize your OS makes it not Windows anymore.

Yes I am aware of RT. There's a reason it didn't survive. Yes, I understand what S mode is. It's also not the default install method for many devices, and you can disable it.
To go into a subject, with no foundation, no motivation and no interest. How is this a set up for success?

I mean, sure, people can go into any subject, but... if they're to succeed?
Thanks, chatgpt.
C++ has pattern matching through overloading.
I had four tasmota preflashed athom plugs die on me in less than a year. As long as they worked they were perfect but they don't last... Hope they addressed the issue meanwhile
I don't agree. "Diversity" has a commonly accepted meaning which in the US at least, means everything except white men. Female or non-white are "diversity." A great example are the statements and articles from 2020 when Biden announced the most diverse ever White House Communications Team which was 100% female. Biden talked about how critical diversity was and bragged about this 100% female communications team. All the articles I read about it had things like "most diverse White House Communications Team in history" to describe it. At least from a gender perspective, I don't see how they could make it more clear that diversity == women
It's basically P-D-and-a-little-second-derivative, but the straight PD controller code just doesn't like the whole "you only get to run every half second" timing aspect. Things take far too long to ramp up, and the amount of overshoot you get is just ridiculous. There's no way (at least, not that I've been able to mitigate in anything even close to acceptably) to avoid super obvious oscillation, even if it eventually converges, at the low rate we're running.

Someone could, if they wanted (as one of the "what's left" options =D) replace all of this with PD code but they'll probably need to run at a much higher data rate for things to actually behave, and optimize the SimConnect calls to get the dataframes necessary without tying up a thread.
Living in a car and eating dog food?

Maybe I'm too tired and missed the point, but usually when I read things about living more simply and not keeping up with the Jones, it's presented in a more romantic way than sleeping in the back of a $1,000 car and dog food. Is the point to make the reader feel better about the stress they have, because they don't want the stresses of the alternative?
> That's correct and IMHO its the right thing to do

I'm in awe. I'm pro-censorship myself as a general principle (though not in this obviously unjustifiable instance of it), but please be coherent. How come the current semi-popular opinion on HN happens to be pro-censorship, when HN community is against censorship in every other situation?
Every single news outlet is known to have issues with factuality. Reporting the news is expensive and the people paying for it almost always want their point of view to be taken into consideration, regardless of state or private funding.

There is a spectrum of factuality, BBC News has problems with the govt threatening to shut it down if it doesn’t report what the govt wants it to report, but it’s no Russia Today, Daily Mail, or Fox News.
High-performance numerical kernels are hardly general-purpose programming.
“Accepted” is a generality. There are individuals with beliefs counter to the norm in every city.
The GH repo for ULIDs provides better and more relevant reasons for use. https://github.com/ulid/spec
This occurs at business school in a big way. They hit diversity quotas with super rich kids from Mexico City who are probably direct descendants of the conquistadors who pillaged the people these diversity quotas are supposed to benefit.
If you attempted explaining how you think my stated position is unreasonable, perhaps I could see it. So far you've only attacked strawmen, such as claiming that I am demanding support from HA or claiming upstream was being asked to support nixpkgs.

What I do see is a project calling itself FOSS, while its maintainers really don't like it being used as Free Software. If one wants to control downstream uses of one's software, the answer is quite simple - release it under a proprietary license. Don't grant freedom while going on and on about how you support freedom, but then be upset when someone actually uses that freedom to do something.

> deal with end users bugging me about it being broken.

The nixpkgs maintainers asked how much this was actually happening, and even preemptively proposed solutions. OP didn't engage and just repeated his demands. And in general how is this any different from the common DRM-authoritarian refrain that companies are justified locking down devices they make, lest end users modify them and then clueless people might attribute the outcome to the original manufacturer?
John Carmack, ryg, people making demoscene, are the hackerest of the hackers, and they use Windows mostly. These people derive from the Wirthian pascal heritage. Unix people would not know.
That is not the same thing. Stock brokerages are simply required to store every bit of written communication for years, for example. As I understand it there are also circumstances where they’re forced to record things if they’re not written.

Not as a “reasonably anticipated” but just always.

I think companies that manage lots of private user data should probably be held to the same standards.
That's cool. I admit hearing that story and thinking, "Is that how it happened? could a diver find it?" Apparently, they could! Great work on someone seeing it through.
Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward
author is currently an engineer and researcher at Anthropic.
thank you, Do you have any additional thoughts?
They picked individual statements out of context, see https://www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/habeck-rechte-pseu...
Large Discussion[0] (250 points, 3 days ago, 155 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237855
do you have a link to buy this by any chance..?
I suspect it was pretty good if you don't know or care about Turing. But yeah, it pissed me off pretty bad.
They'd probably want to go back to the Canaanites.
That was the standard way a long time ago, and the first startup would take a really long time because it would install even more stuff. And sometimes fail. It wasn't very reliable if you used any addons, and some required a ton of extra steps that it couldn't automate like the modern deployments do now.
That's a big goalpost move from the original claim that meanings can be different.
I just archived 15,000 emails between 2 accounts about 2 hours ago. I hadn't thought about inbox 0 in years and kind of gave up on the idea, but sometimes it feels pretty good declare email bankruptcy and start over. Maybe if I did that more often I would stop setting up new email addresses with the thought that "this time I'll do better". All that has done is created fragmentation, which makes the problem worse.
Except for the search-replace error (The Impresario on the Train!)